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Lisa Benson has taken on the role of chief operations officer at The Advisory Board – an organization of consultants to the accounting profession.

Top 100 CPA and business advisory firm Plante Moran recently launched its Women in Leadership initiative with a goal of attracting, retaining, developing and advancing women into leadership positions within the firm.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has acquired select assets of the TaxWorks software line from RedGear Technologies, the customers of which will be transitioned to UltraTax CS—part of the CS Professional Suite.

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday on moving forward with solutions to tax fraud and tax identity theft as they grappled with an expanding problem that has plagued recent tax seasons.

Helen Brand, chief executive of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, discusses how ACCA is working with the International Integrated Reporting Council on integrating sustainability and governance reporting with financial reporting by accountants.

Non-profit financial reporting and accounting software maker AccuFund Inc. named six firms to receive its Partner Leadership Award for sales and marketing success in 2012.

A pair of Congressmen have introduced legislation that would allow the Internal Revenue Service to provide taxpayers with a tax form already containing information received from employers and banks to streamline the tax prep process.

A former Internal Revenue Service agent-turned-tax preparer has been sentenced to nearly 24 years in prison for defrauding his tax clients out of more than $11 million and then hiring a hit man to kill them to prevent them from testifying about the theft.

Cloud-based accounts receivable platform maker TermSync has released TermSync Scorecard, an interactive dashboard designed for financial executives to take a deeper look into the accounts receivables department.

The International Integrated Reporting Council has issued a consultation draft of its International Integrated Reporting Framework, which aims to create the foundations for a new reporting model that will enable a business to provide a concise communication of how it creates value over time.